The Furnace Golem

This enemy's internal name is "Wickerman"

Burning people : oh, okay. Burning cattle/horse : wow… Burning dragon : WTF !?

This is probably accidental when copying one leg to another and making the bodies of each leg the same but I love how it makes it look like these people burned to death while trying to reach out to the person on the other leg, imagine if they had the cruelty of placing people who knew each other as family, friends and lovers on each of their legs and letting them watch as their loved ones burn while they can't even be holding each other in their last moments

It'd be so much darker if you still heard screams coming from this thing while fighting it

It maybe called a Furnace Golem but I'm still gonna call them Wickerman

Imo this is one of the most vile things Fromsoft has ever created next to the One Reborn

I like how they made it bigger than the concept art depicted it

The description of the Furnace Visage says that the Fire Giant decorations were intended to terrify and mock the Hornsent people. Looking at the overall thing, it's a war machine, a siege weapon, and a terror weapon all rolled into one. I mean, it's full of the corpses of anything it can find and pick up to fuel its fires, right up to a dragon corpse. Plus the sheer size of them and the fact you can see them from miles away helps sell the intimidation factor of them. When you first come onto the Scadu Altus and see one just standing guard outside the Shadow Keep past the Messmer camp, you just know they want to keep people out.

It's actually genius, they use corpses and steel as the chassis and limbs while having a large furnace inside that burns Messmer's dirty laundry as fuel to continue working. They are disposing of corpses, scrap metal AND laundry while making it also dispose of unwanted intruders in the process as well!

Look at the visages, man. I understand why Messmer's Crusade began, the Erdtree society's idea of righteousness and purification of evil. But the visages on the golems. Those twisted visages on humanoid mounds of burning Hornsent corpses, meant to mock and terrify the people of the tower. It demonstrates a depravity and dehumanization of the enemy, fueled by hatred for those that hurt Marika's people so long ago. An eye for an eye, they say. Just another massacre in response to a massacre. It's an endless cycle of hate.

Imagine looking out from the Tower and seeing five or six of these marching towards you from across the Plain, I’d fold immediately

Imagine the stench coming off of that thing...

These are based on wicker men. According to Cesar in his memoirs of the Gaulish wars (and therefore to be taken with a grain of salt), these were tall wooden humanoid structures that were built to house human sacrifices, and were then set on fire. They're most well known thanks to the british folk horror movie Wicker Man.

Messmer ain't picking his victims on this one, be it a dragon or a giant, they're fuel for his warmachines.

Does it's "face" remind anyone else of the Dung Eater's sigil?

First time seeing this guy be like: I can definitely take this down gets grabbed and cooked out of oblivion

Fun fact: this is based on a thing that actually existed. Wickermen were giant, hollow wicker statues that were built and later burned by Celtic druids for ritual purposes. Old legend says that they even burned crowds of people within them as well as animals (Though they might have been criminals or already dead). This is probably a historically exaggerated account (as it's told their enemies) but it's still pretty terrifying to think about.

"It's made out of a bunch of corpses" - person describing a FromSoft creature. Us: do you have ANY idea how little that narrows it down?

Just hit me how the Furnace Golem could also represent a fear of being eaten by a Fire Giant. Throwing all those bodies into its center to burn made me think of how the Giant's literally have a massive mouth on their stomach that spews lava.

the time i fought one at the dlc beginning, i was attacking his legs and then i was like HOLY S**T IS THAT A HORSE?!